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Then you remember that, after all, this is just another of his memory books. And memory, he reminds you, is never to be counted on. But it's Garcia Marquez's power to discover all kinds of enduring truths in memory's fog banks that has made him one of the most popular living writers. When it was first published in Spain and Latin America last year, this ambling but rich book became the fastest seller in the history of Latin American publishing. Knopf took the unusual step of issuing a Spanish-language edition in the U.S., and the first...
...party, the body heat from hundreds of people grinding on—and off—the dance floor was combined with intermittent use of a fog machine, turning the frigid fall air outside into a humid summer night on the second floor of Europa...
...then, suddenly, after more than a week of rage and destruction, it was all but over. Fog and cold rolled in from the ocean to quench the flames, leaving behind a dusting of snowflakes at the higher elevations and smoking rubble where houses used...
...which has been holding the tourists since mid-September, wanted to release them individually, while the government insisted they all be liberated together. The NLA promised earlier to let the first hostages go this week. A Burning Issue U.S. Firefighters hoped to take advantage of cold weather and fog to bring under control the blazes that ravaged huge swaths of southern California for most of the week. The wildfires have killed 20 people, scorched 3,000 sq km of land and destroyed more than 2,800 homes. At week's end, the flames had receded from most of the major...
...though the silhouettes in the final scene are brilliant, the purple flashes accompanying Foustka’s quasi-pacts with Fistula could be better established and used elsewhere—and the bits of musical scoring occasionally hit and miss. The set is stylistically unremarkable, though the fog machines liven it up. The costumes are fabulous—the bowler hats, in particular, are clutch—but the choreography verges on mediocrity and, far worse, doesn’t seem integrated into the production as a whole...